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WELLS COUNTY EMS INC

WELLS COUNTY EMS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,526,216 to it, the largest being WELLS COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ($1,485,666). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$699k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Wells County EMS Inc does

Mission

To provide EMS services to citizens of Wells County, Indiana.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide ambulance service that can be contracted for services to residents of wells county and surrounding areas. The corporation served 3,100 individuals in the wells and surrounding counties during the year.

    $1,985,730 spent$1,451,885 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,985,730.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($317k)2018 Revenue 106 ($2.3M) Expenses 103 ($2.3M) Net assets 92 ($291k)2019 Revenue 97 ($2.1M) Expenses 96 ($2.2M) Net assets 70 ($223k)2020 Revenue 109 ($2.4M) Expenses 107 ($2.4M) Net assets 54 ($173k)2021 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 93 ($2.1M) Net assets 81 ($256k)2022 Revenue 126 ($2.7M) Expenses 119 ($2.7M) Net assets 101 ($320k)2023 Revenue 110 ($2.4M) Expenses 110 ($2.5M) Net assets 71 ($224k)2024 Revenue 137 ($3.0M) Expenses 126 ($2.9M) Net assets 108 ($343k)2025 Revenue 126 ($2.7M) Expenses 105 ($2.4M) Net assets 221 ($699k)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (105)Net assets (221)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $503k to $962k (+91%).

$490k
$469k
$400k
$366k
$408k
$503k
$962k
$556k
$915k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 9% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

47% of WELLS COUNTY EMS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$86k
’17
−$26k
’18
−$67k
’19
−$51k
’20
$84k
’21
$64k
’22
−$96k
’23
$118k
’24
$356k
’25
1.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Rick Piepenbrink

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·00000100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $452k → $15k.

Funder
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'21
'22
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'26*
total
funders
1
1
1
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of WELLS COUNTY EMS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

WELLS COUNTY EMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WELLS COUNTY EMS INC.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 59% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of WELLS COUNTY EMS INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’22
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WELLS COUNTY EMS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like WELLS COUNTY EMS INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WELLS COUNTY EMS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WELLS COUNTY EMS INC?
WELLS COUNTY EMS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,526,216 to it, the largest being WELLS COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ($1,485,666). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WELLS COUNTY EMS INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,526,216 in grants to WELLS COUNTY EMS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WELLS COUNTY EMS INC?
WELLS COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,485,666 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WELLS COUNTY EMS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing